Phillip Liu is the CTO and a founder of SignalFx. Before SignalFx, Phillip was a software architect at Facebook, where he led development of Facebook's Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform and several key, web-scale application management solutions. Prior to Facebook, Phillip played a pioneering role in the development of the Datacenter Automation category as a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard and as Chief Architect at Opsware. Phillip has more than twenty years of experience in distributed systems.